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Example sentences for "half inches"

  • Place eight or nine beans one and a half inches deep in each pot, eventually reducing the number of plants to five.

  • A ten-inch pot will accommodate about eight seeds, and these should be planted one and a half inches deep.

  • Drain-pipes not less than two and a half inches in diameter, and from twelve to fifteen inches in length, answer well for large stems.

  • These walls should be nine inches thick for two feet six inches of their height, but for the upper parts the brickwork need only be four and a half inches thick.

  • The horn was six and a half inches long, and the girth a little over ten feet.

  • It displays few flowers to a plant, but each measures two and a half inches or less across, and has from nine to twelve pink (or rarely white) petals.

  • The narrow heads may be two and a half inches long.

  • Size: In adults it is five inches long, three and one-half inches in breadth at its broadest part and two and one-half inches in thickness.

  • The heart is placed behind the lower two- thirds of the breast bone and extends from the median line three inches to the left half of the cavity of the chest and one and one-half inches to the right half of the cavity of the chest.

  • Root is two to two and a half inches in length.

  • These are two smaller folds situated within the labia majora, extending from the clitoris, downward and outward for about one and one-half inches on each side of the vaginal opening.

  • These should be two and one-half inches high to be of proper proportion for the chairs.

  • Fasten the lower shelf three-quarters of an inch above the base, and the top shelf at a height of two and one-half inches.

  • These are four and one-half inches high, two inches wide, and an inch and one-half deep.

  • Make the head and foot pieces three by four and one-half inches, cutting a piece two by an inch and one-quarter out of the top of each as shown in the drawing (Fig.

  • The trout were, on an average, one and a half inches in length, and the salmon two and three-quarter inches.

  • July, their wings measuring, when expanded, from one and a quarter to one and a half inches or more.

  • The boiler was thirty inches in diameter, and contained seventy-two copper flues, one and one-half inches in diameter and seven feet long.

  • They were very thin, being only one inch to one and a half inches thick; and Mr. Baldwin, in importing some tires from England at that time, insisted on their being made double the ordinary thickness.

  • The total length of this piece should not be over two and a half inches.

  • On the under side of the arrow just behind the barb, a flat notch one eighth of an inch in depth and two and a half inches in length is cut, with rounded ends, as seen in the illustration.

  • Two of these should be ten and a half inches in length, and the other two six and a-half, and the ends should be perfectly smooth.

  • This should be about two and a-half inches in width, and bevelled off at each end into a flat edge.

  • It should consist of a light piece of pine eight and a half inches in length, and brought to an edge at each end.

  • Fishes two and a half inches by one inch were found nearly fresh.

  • These eggs measured one and a half inches in length, very oval, whitish, spotted and dotted irregularly with brown and black all over.

  • One cod measured three feet six and a half inches, and weighed twenty-one pounds.

  • Yet we met with both church and priest, and our ears were saluted by the sound of a bell which measures one foot by nine and a half inches in diameter, and weighs thirty pounds; and this bell may be heard a full quarter of a mile.

  • For a small pair the paper should measure fifteen inches in length and three and a half inches in width; larger sizes require larger paper.

  • Cut the top of the table four inches long and three and a half inches wide, and the shelf three and a half inches long and three inches wide.

  • For each card cut an oblong of paper five inches long and two and a half inches wide.

  • For a bell three and a half inches high (a very good size), cut a strip of paper three and a half inches wide and seven inches long, curve it into the cone shape shown in Fig.

  • Cut an oblong of writing-paper eight and a half inches long and six and a half inches wide.

  • Length six and a quarter inches; breadth nine and a half inches.

  • Length five and a half inches; breadth seven and a half.

  • Length four and a half inches; breadth seven and a half.

  • Length five and a quarter inches; breadth eight and a half inches.

  • In height, he stood five feet ten-and-a-half inches, and weighed fully thirteen stones.

  • Richardson measured in height, five feet nine-and-a-half inches, and weighed fully fourteen stones.

  • The Maryland Yellow-throat Length about five and a half inches.

  • The Yellow-breasted Chat Length seven and a half inches--much more than any other Warbler measures.

  • The Brown Creeper Length five and a half inches.

  • The American Redstart Length about five and a half inches.

  • These are one and a half inches long, pointed at both ends, and have prominent raised rings.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "half inches" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    another occasion; country folk; habeas corpus; half acres; half after; half aloud; half asleep; half cents; half centuries; half cupful; half days; half fathoms; half feet; half from; half inches; half lemon; half ounce; half parts; half pound; half times; half tons; half wide; landed estates; little proud; repeated the following verses; year terms